tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18407104151466081212017-08-18T00:18:40.714-04:00A View from the BeachOne day you wash up on the beach, wet and naked. Another day you wash back out. In between, the scenery changes constantly.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.comBlogger11875125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-36507863304611838212017-08-17T23:59:00.000-04:002017-08-17T23:59:05.830-04:00Midnite Music<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WsDcu-R1fyU" width="550"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="http://kuow.org/post/renowned-newport-oregon-oceanographer-bill-peterson-dies">Renowned Newport, Oregon, Oceanographer Bill Peterson Dies</a>Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-90244602207950691402017-08-17T10:04:00.003-04:002017-08-17T10:04:53.713-04:00A Three Percenter Speaks<a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/11/dr-judith-curry-explains-the-reality-of-bad-climate-science-and-bad-politics/">Dr. Judith Curry Explains The Reality Of Bad Climate Science And Bad Politics</a><br /><div><br /></div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7zk7Xfyv6k4" width="550"></iframe><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">“On balance, I don’t see any particular dangers from greenhouse warming. {Humans do} influence climate to some extent, what we do with land-use changes and what we put into the atmosphere. But I don’t think it’s a large enough impact to dominate over natural climate variability.”<br />. . .<br />“The collapse of the consensus on cholesterol and heart disease – that one collapsed overnight. I can only hope that sanity will eventually prevail with the climate problem as well.”</blockquote>Technically, this makes her part of the<a href="https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcome/?toURL=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexepstein/2015/01/06/97-of-climate-scientists-agree-is-100-wrong/&amp;refURL=https://www.google.com/&amp;referrer=https://www.google.com/"> "97%" of scientists who allegedly support global warming theory</a>, believing that CO2 contributes to global warming. I guess that makes me one too, since my beliefs align with hers.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-88475832000186309412017-08-17T07:49:00.002-04:002017-08-17T07:49:49.149-04:00Reason #5648 That Trump Was Elected<div class="tr_bq"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tb4-lDr5tSc/WZWClCNBc6I/AAAAAAABIM8/M3otTF_NZ-ELgAUQSv1kiOr4i326QmjGwCLcBGAs/s1600/obama%2Bas%2Bcanute.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="500" height="287" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tb4-lDr5tSc/WZWClCNBc6I/AAAAAAABIM8/M3otTF_NZ-ELgAUQSv1kiOr4i326QmjGwCLcBGAs/s320/obama%2Bas%2Bcanute.gif" width="320" /></a><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/16/trump-to-repeal-obama-executive-order-on-sea-level-rise/">Trump To Repeal Obama Executive Order On Sea Level Rise</a></div><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">President Donald Trump will rescind an Obama administration policy requiring government agencies to take into account global warming-induced flooding and sea level rise for federally-funded projects.<br /><br />Trump will repeal the climate order that President Barack Obama signed in 2015 as part of a broader effort to streamline infrastructure permitting. Administration officials said the current process is long and cumbersome.<br /><br />“For far too long, critical projects have been delayed by duplicative permitting and environmental requirements which added time and unnecessary expenses to much needed projects,” Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a statement obtained by Bloomberg.<br /><br />Trump wants to push a $200 billion infrastructure spending bill through Congress this fall, which he hopes will mobilize $800 billion in state and private funding. A cumbersome permitting process could hold up infrastructure projects.<br /><br />Furthermore, Obama’s executive order to “improve the resilience of communities and federal assets against the impacts of flooding” could increase the upfront costs or even eliminate projects in the pipeline.</blockquote>Now look at the data on sea level rise from Baltimore (one of the longest US records):<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MVPBW0SwT8Q/WZWAgBuj8oI/AAAAAAABIMs/rm7LpzPg8kUyvEiOB3uO-0qqP3JQQZg-gCLcBGAs/s1600/Sea_level_baltimore%2B2017.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1000" height="160" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MVPBW0SwT8Q/WZWAgBuj8oI/AAAAAAABIMs/rm7LpzPg8kUyvEiOB3uO-0qqP3JQQZg-gCLcBGAs/s400/Sea_level_baltimore%2B2017.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YCiFGurrcE/WZWAgNhssbI/AAAAAAABIMw/ufjjzEEpunok9noFNw2iqfxxKI48cZlwQCLcBGAs/s1600/Sea_level_baltimore_variation.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1000" height="160" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7YCiFGurrcE/WZWAgNhssbI/AAAAAAABIMw/ufjjzEEpunok9noFNw2iqfxxKI48cZlwQCLcBGAs/s400/Sea_level_baltimore_variation.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />No hint of a modern acceleration of sea level rise due to global warming. There's nothing to take into account.<br /><br />That said, it's not a bad idea to put your houses and other buildings above the reach of flooding. But if you want to, you should be prepared to pay for it yourself when it floods, or buy a flood insurance policy based on an appropriate probability of damage, <a href="https://www.fema.gov/national-flood-insurance-program">not one subsidized by the feds</a>.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-74893860743087957832017-08-17T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-17T06:00:11.705-04:00Tanline Thursday in the News!<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4763206/Farrah-Abraham-flaunts-surgically-enhanced-assets.html">Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham flaunts her surgically enhanced assets and exposes her tanlines as she wears derriere-flashing jumpsuit in Las Vegas</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">She shot to fame in the MTV reality series 16 And Pregnant in 2009, before starring in the spin off show Teen Mom.<br /><br />And Farrah Abraham, 26, put her best-known assets on display in a daring sheer jumpsuit at the VIP Back Door Key Party at Crazy Horse III in Las Vegas on Saturday.<br /><br />Flaunting her surgically enhanced chest in the jumpsuit, the reality star exposed her tan lines and bronzed chest. . .&nbsp;</blockquote>I vaguely remember that such a show existed, I can't imagine why anyone would watch:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KMKWOtrhBwQ/WZTGoNbI4nI/AAAAAAABILY/40spIWsQ5scKTqyjQVlb9iDlCa7eQQx7wCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Farrah%2BAbraham42FB81FB00000578-4763206-image-a-2_1501929698993-a.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KMKWOtrhBwQ/WZTGoNbI4nI/AAAAAAABILY/40spIWsQ5scKTqyjQVlb9iDlCa7eQQx7wCK4BGAYYCw/s640/Farrah%2BAbraham42FB81FB00000578-4763206-image-a-2_1501929698993-a.jpg" width="518" /></a></div><br />She's had more work than <a href="https://fritz-aviewfromthebeach.blogspot.com/2017/06/200000.html">my Subaru</a>. More celebrity tanlines?<br /><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sfJNkr3l9Cg/WZTHATqsSAI/AAAAAAABILk/6rNMeqIZnSM-HA_86C9urQNBeQuyz89qACLcBGAs/s1600/004_courteney%2Bcox%2B1996%2Bmark%2Bseliger%2Bshoot%2B02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sfJNkr3l9Cg/WZTHATqsSAI/AAAAAAABILk/6rNMeqIZnSM-HA_86C9urQNBeQuyz89qACLcBGAs/s640/004_courteney%2Bcox%2B1996%2Bmark%2Bseliger%2Bshoot%2B02.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Courtney Cox</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oUuzSXc7jos/WZTHAAOkcoI/AAAAAAABILc/Gefzn7dZ9CgIQVWiC90qqcUFQ1f1frYEQCLcBGAs/s1600/007_ireland_baldwin_04_galeria_portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="423" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oUuzSXc7jos/WZTHAAOkcoI/AAAAAAABILc/Gefzn7dZ9CgIQVWiC90qqcUFQ1f1frYEQCLcBGAs/s640/007_ireland_baldwin_04_galeria_portrait.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ireland Baldwin</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F_nhQ936c6g/WZTHHqNELDI/AAAAAAABILo/2C1DVGB10R4F8QucjyRAkaKrc5zxZT_tQCLcBGAs/s1600/08_JLaw.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="628" height="438" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F_nhQ936c6g/WZTHHqNELDI/AAAAAAABILo/2C1DVGB10R4F8QucjyRAkaKrc5zxZT_tQCLcBGAs/s640/08_JLaw.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jennifer Lawnrence</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br />Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-86412627582853491622017-08-16T20:06:00.000-04:002017-08-16T20:06:24.726-04:00Floron du Jour: You're Supposed to Set the Hook!<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YW6HrqOm7-A/WZTddGDbeeI/AAAAAAABIMc/MdHFwlT9Z-wu_kKn0oZpM9MamVBuugc-ACLcBGAs/s1600/Alexandria%2BTurner_1502910665326_8876750_ver1.0_640_360.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YW6HrqOm7-A/WZTddGDbeeI/AAAAAAABIMc/MdHFwlT9Z-wu_kKn0oZpM9MamVBuugc-ACLcBGAs/s320/Alexandria%2BTurner_1502910665326_8876750_ver1.0_640_360.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/deputies-st-johns-county-woman-drunkenly-bites-mans-fishing-line-at-pier/593621732">Woman drunkenly bites man's fishing line at St. Johns County pier</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">St. Johns County deputies arrested a woman after she bit a man's fishing line and swam off with his lure, according to a police report.<br /><br />Deputies were called to the St. Johns County Pier on Tuesday at approximately 6 p.m. A fisherman told deputies that 22-year-old Alexandria Turner appeared to be intoxicated when she swam up to his fishing line and cursed him out.<br /><br />She bit the line and swam away with the rigging, according to the police report.<br /><br />When deputies asked Turner to come to the pier office where the fisherman had rented the pole, she became belligerent and refused to walk inside, the report said. Deputies said Turner began creating a scene and upsetting the "sense of public norm at the pier" when they tried to take her into protective custody.<br /><br />She refused to let deputies handcuff her and screamed, "I'm (expletive) naked!" several times, the report said. Deputies arrested Turner on suspicion of disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest without violence.</blockquote>Alcohol is involved? I'm shocked, shocked.<br /><br />Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-2101789122494320782017-08-16T19:18:00.000-04:002017-08-16T19:18:30.088-04:00Reason #37 I'm Glad I Retired<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9585">Researcher dismisses science 'conducted primarily by white men'</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">A physics researcher at the University of Washington says the controversial Google memo is just the latest example of “shoddy science” that is “conducted primarily by white men.”<br /><br />“It’s 2017, and to some extent scientific literature still supports a patriarchal view that ranks a man’s intellect above a woman’s,” physics Research Associate <a href="http://www.cprescodweinstein.com/">Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein</a> complained in <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/08/evolutionary_psychology_is_the_most_obvious_example_of_how_science_is_flawed.html">a Slate op-ed</a> last week, written in response to the memo in which former Google employee James Damore criticized the company’s efforts to effect gender diversity.<br /><br />Specifically, Prescod-Weinstein takes issue with the contention—related to her by a “well-known scientist”—that “the Google memo failed to constitute hostile behavior because it cited peer-reviewed articles that suggest women have different brains,” arguing that “peer-reviewed” is not synonymous with “correct.”<br /><br />Prescod-Weinstein asserts that, rather than placing value in the contents of peer-reviewed scientific articles, we should recognize that “science has often made its living from encoding and justifying bias” and is “conducted primarily by white men.”</blockquote>I hope she will deny herself all the benefits of science, like modern medicine, antibiotics, and any other treatments created by men.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-82419228476264054242017-08-16T19:01:00.000-04:002017-08-16T19:11:43.998-04:00Maryland Moves to Erase the Past<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvV85YBOdH4/WZTNOV7VqsI/AAAAAAABIL4/9-kC9TnIbCAA92m6ryiS40M7GgOm7lUmACLcBGAs/s1600/p5200286.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="667" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xvV85YBOdH4/WZTNOV7VqsI/AAAAAAABIL4/9-kC9TnIbCAA92m6ryiS40M7GgOm7lUmACLcBGAs/s320/p5200286.jpg" width="213" /></a><a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/15/11508/">Maryland Governor Orders Removal of Chief Justice Taney Statue</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered the statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who found in the 1857 Dred Scott decision that a slave had no right to sue for his freedom, removed from the grounds of the state house.<br /><br />His 2018 challenger for the governor's seat, former NAACP president Ben Jealous, claimed that Hogan was making a political move a day after Jealous gave a statement in front of the Taney statue calling for its removal.<br /><br />Taney, who was born in Calvert County, wrote in the 7-2 opinion for the majority that the framers of the Constitution regarded blacks "as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."<br /><br />"...It is obvious that they were not even in the minds of the framers of the Constitution when they were conferring special rights and privileges upon the citizens of a State in every other part of the Union. Indeed, when we look to the condition of this race in the several States at the time, it is impossible to believe that these rights and privileges were intended to be extended to them."<br /><br />Hogan said this evening that Maryland "has always been a state of middle temperament, which is a guiding principle of our administration."</blockquote><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fDV8Tv0p4K8/WZTNra0D_CI/AAAAAAABIL8/puZVwzSF-eYAIDHU6Isi5tyQi376g_TDwCLcBGAs/s1600/house01.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fDV8Tv0p4K8/WZTNra0D_CI/AAAAAAABIL8/puZVwzSF-eYAIDHU6Isi5tyQi376g_TDwCLcBGAs/s320/house01.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://taneyplacefarm.com/our-story/">Taney Place</a>&nbsp;</td></tr></tbody></table>As I have noted previously,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_B._Taney"> Justice Taney's birthplace</a> is just a few miles from here, off Adelina Road.<br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Roger Brooke Taney was born on March 17, 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, the son of Monica (Brooke) and Michael Taney. He was the second son, and the third of seven children (four sons and three daughters) born to a slaveholding family of tobacco planters in Calvert County, Maryland. He received a rudimentary education from a series of private tutors. After instructing him for a year, his last tutor, David English, recommended that Taney was ready for college. At the age of 15 he entered Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, graduating with honors in 1795. As a younger son with no prospect of inheriting the family plantation, Taney chose the profession of law. He read law with Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase and was admitted to the bar in 1799. He quickly distinguished himself as one of Maryland's most promising young lawyers.</blockquote>He couldn't be a Republican, because the modern Republican Party had not yet come into existence.<br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Taney, a Jacksonian Democrat, was made Chief Justice by Jackson. He inherited slaves from his father but manumitted them and gave pensions to the older ones. He believed that power and liberty were extremely important and if power became too concentrated, then it posed a grave threat to individual liberty. He opposed attempts by the national government to regulate or control matters that would restrict the rights of individuals. From Prince Frederick, Maryland, he had practiced law and politics simultaneously and succeeded in both. After abandoning the Federalist Party as a losing cause, he rose to the top of the state's Jacksonian machine. As Attorney General (1831–1833) and then Secretary of the Treasury (1833–1834), and as a prominent member of the Kitchen Cabinet, Taney became one of Jackson's closest advisers, assisting Jackson in his populist crusade against the powerful Bank of the United States.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NIMtq5xt5Qw/WZTRFqCXcVI/AAAAAAABIMM/H4-9VYGfhFQc9tnzp-a9kit8FKl0OkwxQCLcBGAs/s1600/fdr-memorial-statue-credit-stefan-fussan_flickr-user-derfussi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1019" data-original-width="1600" height="203" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NIMtq5xt5Qw/WZTRFqCXcVI/AAAAAAABIMM/H4-9VYGfhFQc9tnzp-a9kit8FKl0OkwxQCLcBGAs/s320/fdr-memorial-statue-credit-stefan-fussan_flickr-user-derfussi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Time to remove the statue of &nbsp;the man who ordered Japanese orphans interned at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar_Children%27s_Village">Manzanar</a> from his <a href="https://www.nps.gov/frde/index.htm">memorial</a> in Washington D.C. Or maybe we should just remove the whole memorial.<br /><br />Both sides can play this game.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-47852623905836697832017-08-16T09:01:00.001-04:002017-08-16T09:01:56.612-04:00Reason #5647 That Trump Was Elected<div class="tr_bq"><a href="http://nypost.com/2017/08/02/doj-to-use-civil-rights-funding-to-fight-against-affirmative-action-report/">DOJ to use civil rights funding to fight against affirmative action</a></div><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The Department of Justice is reportedly planning to redirect money earmarked for civil-rights enforcement and spend it on action against universities that allegedly “discriminate against white applicants” by adhering to affirmative-action policies.<br /><br />The New York Times cites an internal document sent to the department’s civil-rights division that asks staff lawyers to work on a new project involving “investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university ­admissions.”<br /><br />Conservatives, who have long fought affirmative action, hailed the project as “long overdue.”</blockquote>Maybe the way to fight discrimination is to stop discriminating?Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-72574620427394070092017-08-16T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-16T10:56:41.000-04:00Taylor Swift Wins the Lottery <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-28srcx9q-Vc/WZODDHmrAWI/AAAAAAABIKc/SgzaVWFd_V0fX-B4Ve5mJ4AKJC9J3wzAgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/559d296a1700003700b0657c.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-28srcx9q-Vc/WZODDHmrAWI/AAAAAAABIKc/SgzaVWFd_V0fX-B4Ve5mJ4AKJC9J3wzAgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/559d296a1700003700b0657c.jpeg" width="212" /></a><br />1$!&nbsp;<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/14/breakingjury-finds-taylor-swift-told-truth/">Jury Finds Taylor Swift Told The Truth</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">... one of the stranger lawsuits in recent memory comes to a close. The DJ who sued a pop star to supposedly regain his reputation ended up proving her case to the jury without her attorney calling a single witness. A Denver jury sided with Taylor Swift, who countersued and accused David Mueller of sexual assault, and awarded her the symbolic single dollar she demanded:</blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><div dir="ltr" lang="en">BREAKING: Jury sides with Taylor Swift in groping lawsuit, orders fired radio host to pay the pop star a symbolic $1.</div>— The Associated Press (@AP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AP/status/897228753574793217">August 14, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jlLR9cYiqd0/WZOD3fsiR7I/AAAAAAABIKo/gKEY51J1QVIXQlPuigRwZflTA6pBq4zwQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Taylor%252BSwift%252BShoulder%252BBags%252BLeather%252BShoulder%252BiWRdFgUySsQl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jlLR9cYiqd0/WZOD3fsiR7I/AAAAAAABIKo/gKEY51J1QVIXQlPuigRwZflTA6pBq4zwQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Taylor%252BSwift%252BShoulder%252BBags%252BLeather%252BShoulder%252BiWRdFgUySsQl.jpg" width="208" /></a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Swift’s attorney <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/taylor-swift-sexual-assault-trial-heads-jury-n792636">summed up the situation nicely</a> during closing arguments:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Doug Baldridge, Swift’s lawyer, countered that eight witnesses saw the assault, and that Mueller lost his job because “he grabbed her butt and got caught. Now he’s victimizing her again to save his butt.”</blockquote>Yeah, that worked out well, eh?</blockquote>It only cost him a buck, and court costs, and a job.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty">"Being groped just isn't my thing" said Taylor swiftly.</a><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMRwSG8jY5c/WZOEKQ6VvXI/AAAAAAABIKw/OOY34Aj617ESDKlmx5VPG0j8a38VzqyAgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/taylor-swift-vogue-cover-may-2016-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMRwSG8jY5c/WZOEKQ6VvXI/AAAAAAABIKw/OOY34Aj617ESDKlmx5VPG0j8a38VzqyAgCK4BGAYYCw/s640/taylor-swift-vogue-cover-may-2016-02.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FVddbgpM5BA/WZOEg92jyvI/AAAAAAABIK4/MwKUwWx7MpEf7uA8fYHzsRHN9FwbkLo8ACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Taylor_Swift_dress_tight_05_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FVddbgpM5BA/WZOEg92jyvI/AAAAAAABIK4/MwKUwWx7MpEf7uA8fYHzsRHN9FwbkLo8ACK4BGAYYCw/s640/Taylor_Swift_dress_tight_05_1.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxEIrcut0mY/WZOEotolL6I/AAAAAAABILA/g3gAdPUqq0UNyKQio6axQAP7sipmHfYeQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/taylor_swift-3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZxEIrcut0mY/WZOEotolL6I/AAAAAAABILA/g3gAdPUqq0UNyKQio6axQAP7sipmHfYeQCK4BGAYYCw/s640/taylor_swift-3.jpg" width="640" /></a>Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-54325010037988717042017-08-15T19:12:00.000-04:002017-08-15T19:12:45.320-04:00Fishing Report 8/15/17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OyNAEDlA010/WZN8hkNGINI/AAAAAAABIJw/BhlTtLPsuyop0VVkG3RLarwSviUXm9ALgCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OyNAEDlA010/WZN8hkNGINI/AAAAAAABIJw/BhlTtLPsuyop0VVkG3RLarwSviUXm9ALgCLcBGAs/s320/081517-a.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Tom, Trevor and I had a walk-on trip with Pete today, with two other anglers that I had not fished with before. We hit Cedar Point on the way out, and didn't stay long, headed to Hoopers Island.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BmoIIAT4T1I/WZN8hmxM-yI/AAAAAAABIJo/z48PKfQIWnk7hcQtXYjVQDD4G9En_n4ugCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="961" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BmoIIAT4T1I/WZN8hmxM-yI/AAAAAAABIJo/z48PKfQIWnk7hcQtXYjVQDD4G9En_n4ugCLcBGAs/s320/081517-b.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>I caught this Speckled Trout in the mouth of a small tidal creek there, and had another to the boat, where it got off waiting for the net. We also caught some keeper stripers in the same creek.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w5ZPbEGGTs0/WZN8hnh8lPI/AAAAAAABIJs/v5p6LXQQjFw4E8XBtsXoQwoGU3_X_BaZACLcBGAs/s1600/081517-c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="1280" height="239" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w5ZPbEGGTs0/WZN8hnh8lPI/AAAAAAABIJs/v5p6LXQQjFw4E8XBtsXoQwoGU3_X_BaZACLcBGAs/s320/081517-c.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>&nbsp;Heading south, we were overtaken by this <a href="https://weather.com/science/news/shelf-cloud-photos-20130412">shelf cloud</a> that ran ahead of a good slug of rain and some thunder (we never saw any lightening).<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GFgyjrLx7M8/WZN8h60ZwrI/AAAAAAABIJ0/4mHTzXMPUeISNL1Q9mbQ2-YHHU3YfN4QgCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-d.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GFgyjrLx7M8/WZN8h60ZwrI/AAAAAAABIJ0/4mHTzXMPUeISNL1Q9mbQ2-YHHU3YfN4QgCLcBGAs/s320/081517-d.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Trevor hooked and landed this piece of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcyonacea">soft coral</a> off one of the submarine hills down in the middle grounds.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gq2b4wB4aFc/WZN8iETGG1I/AAAAAAABIKA/e8rX4FORN2wPrHSpqwTQ41-RpDZumKpDQCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-f.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gq2b4wB4aFc/WZN8iETGG1I/AAAAAAABIKA/e8rX4FORN2wPrHSpqwTQ41-RpDZumKpDQCLcBGAs/s320/081517-f.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><br />There was a pretty good slug of decent sized Bluefish down on the hills, but they moved fast, and were hard to follow.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6rQJqvWXlKs/WZN8h2jqq4I/AAAAAAABIJ4/o2kgxd_mtjYT7-UnarCTjd_5Z91ltOm1gCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-e.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6rQJqvWXlKs/WZN8h2jqq4I/AAAAAAABIJ4/o2kgxd_mtjYT7-UnarCTjd_5Z91ltOm1gCLcBGAs/s320/081517-e.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />And we found some keeper Striped Bass nearby under birds, mixed in with small bass and blues.<br /><br /><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P8-KLVZYzJc/WZN8iCuGkTI/AAAAAAABIJ8/JFGFWtNDuOAbCi9lgbDnirNJDXDvP2zwACLcBGAs/s1600/081517-f-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P8-KLVZYzJc/WZN8iCuGkTI/AAAAAAABIJ8/JFGFWtNDuOAbCi9lgbDnirNJDXDvP2zwACLcBGAs/s320/081517-f-2.JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vx0Y83o-K1o/WZN8iP_M6CI/AAAAAAABIKE/d0w-Prk7skA5ov2bBAbrUr1SndNzC4W7gCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-g.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vx0Y83o-K1o/WZN8iP_M6CI/AAAAAAABIKE/d0w-Prk7skA5ov2bBAbrUr1SndNzC4W7gCLcBGAs/s320/081517-g.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />One place we stopped, and didn't get anything.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hxd3wVWkewY/WZN8iYh0JpI/AAAAAAABIKI/pmCDZSDJU4gtIizH_VAYSUp3CLOIP2m5wCLcBGAs/s1600/081517-h.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hxd3wVWkewY/WZN8iYh0JpI/AAAAAAABIKI/pmCDZSDJU4gtIizH_VAYSUp3CLOIP2m5wCLcBGAs/s320/081517-h.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-45429777032801663152017-08-15T09:00:00.000-04:002017-08-15T09:00:18.826-04:00Reason #5646 That Trump Was ElectedWomen like this:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/08/14/because-you-think-youre-a-man-woman-loses-collective-shiznit-on-cops-outside-trump-tower-video/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget">‘Because YOU think you’re a MAN!’ Woman loses collective shiznit on cops outside Trump Tower</a><br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><div dir="ltr" lang="en">Woman goes ballistic on NYPD for doing their job near Trump Tower<a href="https://t.co/IvanHXnaGJ">pic.twitter.com/IvanHXnaGJ</a></div>— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/897230860918951936">August 14, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><br />I rolled my eyes. How about you?Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-73087183923715916442017-08-15T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-15T06:00:34.913-04:00It's All Part of the Rock 'n Roll Fantasy<iframe width="550" height="310" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jBWm9yQXlc0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-46964155813278891992017-08-14T18:02:00.000-04:002017-08-14T18:02:13.173-04:00Watermen Want Catfish Regulation Reform<div class="tr_bq"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a4C9k1dnctg/WZIdQrc-VNI/AAAAAAABIIw/XKSyGbw_nWYOAMVUd89y_UVy1j9BOybBQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/16195715_733115270201309_9084191431272574574_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a4C9k1dnctg/WZIdQrc-VNI/AAAAAAABIIw/XKSyGbw_nWYOAMVUd89y_UVy1j9BOybBQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/16195715_733115270201309_9084191431272574574_n.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="http://www.stardem.com/news/environment/article_38cec7f9-89e2-53ce-b94d-3d3269e8a14f.html">Shore fishermen fight federal catfish regulations</a></div><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">A local fisheries association and the Maryland’s governor’s office are seeking relief of federal regulations they say would have adverse impacts on the state’s burgeoning catfish industry. Furthermore, since blue catfish are an invasive species that likes to eat the Bay’s native species, a drop in the blue catfish industry in the Chesapeake Bay could produce more adverse impacts than revenue loss.<br /><br />Capt. Rob Newberry, chairman of the Delmarva Fisheries Association, was at the Talbot County Council meeting Tuesday night, Aug. 8, presenting an economic impact analysis of Talbot County fisheries when the topic came up.<br /><br />Newberry said federal regulations going into effect Sept. 1 would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to inspect catfish at processing plants and wholesalers. Newberry said the inspection of catfish issue came up in the 2008 farm bill, when a Mississippi congressman added language that states the inspection of foreign catfish needs to be mandated.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-05v8s3MWZPk/WZIdnx1lwEI/AAAAAAABII4/vvT9iGeFYlINiLUEg_5u345P7qeGLcomACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/z-16939172_1378468678881792_1111595604978714987_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-05v8s3MWZPk/WZIdnx1lwEI/AAAAAAABII4/vvT9iGeFYlINiLUEg_5u345P7qeGLcomACK4BGAYYCw/s320/z-16939172_1378468678881792_1111595604978714987_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Basically, this regulation came about as protectionism for aquaculture catfish farming, after a very strong media campaign to demonize foreign caught and/or farm raised catfish.<br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">In 2014, the Barack Obama administration included domestic catfish in the inspection mandate, but as of a FSIS meeting a few weeks ago, Newberry said the federal government doesn’t plan to increase inspections of imported seafood, and a vast majority of it already is not inspected.<br /><br />The Food and Drug Administration already inspects domestic catfish, Newberry said. Newberry said any further mandated inspections from a different agency will cause the price of catfish to rise, and the DFA doesn’t want to see any regulation that would hurt the consumption of the invasive blue catfish species to the Bay.<br /><br />“They are ravenous, man,” Newberry said, adding that in a purge study, they found baby ducks, baby geese, baby muskrats, crabs, clams, oyster shells and eels in the stomachs of catfish. “Anything you can find in a river or a marsh, they’re eating it. They’re bad news, and if we don’t do something with them, they’re going to overrun the Bay by 2025.”</blockquote><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IiMyXIKFg2Q/WZIdJ0yTYPI/AAAAAAABIIo/DOzqlRplc3QoCgg6vDvVxhWlf3obI1LDwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/17265170_1392745147454145_2042963848884099088_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IiMyXIKFg2Q/WZIdJ0yTYPI/AAAAAAABIIo/DOzqlRplc3QoCgg6vDvVxhWlf3obI1LDwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/17265170_1392745147454145_2042963848884099088_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>Which is pretty much a description of any catfish, who aren't generally noted for their discriminating palates. But Blue Cats get pretty big, and can stuff more in that mouth.<br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration has joined the cause and also sent a letter to UDSA Secretary Perdue, asking for “immediate regulatory relief” from the mandated inspection program for the wild-caught, U.S. catfish industry.<br /><br />“With the U.S. seafood trade deficit reaching historic proportions, strict harvest limits on most other wild seafood species, and traditional U.S. seafood jobs on the decline, the (Trump) Administration must provide every possible advantage to Americans seeking to invest in the business of wild-caught, domestic catfish,” Hogan wrote in the letter dated Tuesday, Aug. 8.<br /><br />Hogan wrote that American consumers increasingly are demanding wild, domestic seafood, and catfish is among that. The “seafood market for catfish in the Maryland/Virginia/D.C. region has grown from zero to millions of pounds sold in just a few years,” the letter reads.<br /><br />Hogan wrote that the commercial growth of the catfish industry is being made possible in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by the invasive blue catfish species.</blockquote>I was unconvinced by the arguments &nbsp;made in favor of the added inspections on catfish that are not carried out on a number of other species. Rid of the regulatio,Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-78057067019013420842017-08-14T09:17:00.000-04:002017-08-14T09:17:10.827-04:00Reason #5645 That Trump Was Elected<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/11/less-is-more-trump-slows-federal-regs-to-crawl-in-first-six-months.html">Less is more? Trump slows federal regs to a crawl in first six months</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Just halfway through his first year in office, President Trump is delivering on a key campaign promise to cut red tape, according to a new study.<br /><br />The six-month <a href="https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/trump-regulation-first-six-months/">review</a> of Trump’s regulatory agenda by the American Action Forum shows the federal government practically slamming the brakes on regulation. The number of new rules is now at a record low, according to the study, in sharp contrast to the start of the Obama administration.<br /><br />“If you look at what’s happening in the first six months for President Trump compared to President Obama, it’s staggering,” group president Douglas Holtz-Eakin told "Fox &amp; Friends" on Friday.<br /><br />On the campaign trail, then-candidate Trump promised that “for every new regulation, we’re going to cut two,” and to “get rid of all the unnecessary regulations.”<br /><br />The data from AAF, a conservative-leaning think tank, shows a total of 27 rules have been withdrawn so far this year, which is slightly lower than the 41 rules that were approved.<br /><br />But the study shows the regulatory push at the beginning of the Obama administration was roughly 20 times more costly to the U.S. economy than at the start of the current administration.<br /><br />The Obama administration's first six months of regulations imposed $24.4 billion in total costs, compared with the $1.2 billion for the Trump administration. And the 41 rules approved represents a fraction of the number approved at the start of previous administrations.<br /><br />“The business community really feels like the beatings have stopped, Washington is not trying to put them in the bullseye, and they can go about running their businesses and not worrying about the regulations,” Holz-Eakin, who ran the Congressional Budget Office under then-President George W. Bush, said.</blockquote>Now get rid of the bureaucrats whose job it is to make the regulations.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-51247217182884055812017-08-14T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-14T06:00:24.052-04:00Know Your Place, Woman!<div class="tr_bq"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JBqwteMAPhc/WZDfjeVHy4I/AAAAAAABIIY/Kj26U607i9QR2YSCOLqPhNsrsuEWFKRtwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/omarosatrump2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JBqwteMAPhc/WZDfjeVHy4I/AAAAAAABIIY/Kj26U607i9QR2YSCOLqPhNsrsuEWFKRtwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/omarosatrump2016.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/08/12/chaos-erupts-at-black-journalists-conference-over-appearance-of-trump-aide/">Chaos Erupts at Black Journalists Conference Over Appearance of Trump Aide</a></div><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">A panel discussion featuringWhite House aide Omarosa Manigault and relatives of two young black men killed by police degenerated into a tense, chaotic mess when audience members jeered and shouted at Manigault for her answers to questions.<br /><br />Here's a short Twitter video of the opening of the encounter between Bounce TV's Ed Gordon and Manigault.</blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><div dir="ltr" lang="en">Omarosa and Ed are on their feet, giving every single journalist in this room what they came for - drama. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NABJ17?src=hash">#NABJ17</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZBmE502V1F">pic.twitter.com/ZBmE502V1F</a></div>— maya king (@mayaaliah) <a href="https://twitter.com/mayaaliah/status/896108334406713344">August 11, 2017</a></blockquote><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LHtdCMOtMK8/WZDfNthlIYI/AAAAAAABIIA/uIb0m_TlhKA99H_Jx0Js-5sJnrbsiqeCQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Omarosa-Manigault-Stallworth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LHtdCMOtMK8/WZDfNthlIYI/AAAAAAABIIA/uIb0m_TlhKA99H_Jx0Js-5sJnrbsiqeCQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Omarosa-Manigault-Stallworth.jpg" width="256" /></a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">Gordon was a last-minute replacement as moderator when New York Timesreporter Nikole Hannah-Jones and Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker backed out of the panel, citing a fear that they would be unable to ask substantive questions about Trump's "policing policies."<br />Journalist Roland Martin pegged the event for exactly what it was: "Click bait folks are happy," he tweeted.<br />When Omarosa eventually took the stage, the conversation immediately grew heated. She was asked about the Trump administration’s policies on policing, and, at one point, said she couldn’t share private conversations with the president. She started out the panel by outlining those she had personally lost to violence, including her own father, brother and seven of her high school classmates. Then, Gordon asked her about the Trump administration and her seat at the table there. At one point, a video of Trump speaking played on the screen in which the president spoke about how he doesn’t want police to “be too nice. Like when you guys put somebody in the car when you’re protecting the head…like don’t hit their head when they just killed somebody. I said you can take the hand away.”</blockquote></blockquote><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K0AwPoC30Dw/WZDfUXD4sQI/AAAAAAABIII/qN5NmpZRFvs21IBCU25q8YKFyQSF31c2gCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/pbox.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-K0AwPoC30Dw/WZDfUXD4sQI/AAAAAAABIII/qN5NmpZRFvs21IBCU25q8YKFyQSF31c2gCK4BGAYYCw/s320/pbox.jpg" width="210" /></a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><blockquote class="tr_bq">“Are you suggesting I should walk away?” Omarosa said to Gordon at one point. “We have to have a voice at the table.” At another point, she told Gordon, “Don’t be aggressive,” and stood up from her chair. “You’re dismissing my family story… and the other thing you did is call this a mess,” she said as Gordon tried to ask questions. “I’m doing my best to keep this as civil as possible,” Gordon said.<br />“Ask your question and don’t lecture me,” Omarosa said, accusing Gordon of “dismissing my family story” by switching questions to Donald Trump.<br />“I’m suggesting that the way this was put together became a mess,” Gordon said at the end of the event. “People started to drop out because they didn’t want to participate in it because they thought it was going to turn into exactly quite frankly what it is turning into,” he said at another point. “It is a mess,” he retorted to Omarosa at one point of the panel.<br />Omarosa and Gordon repeatedly spoke over each other during the panel as he tried to ask questions, especially about Trump’s policies and comments regarding police and the African-American community. She said she couldn’t disclose private conversations with Donald Trump.</blockquote></blockquote><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4qvp0yP99Is/WZDfcgP0GoI/AAAAAAABIIQ/IIKM9tCdQeEdS05-nMAMhDRjMbh1pwj2wCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/rzyoqz7dmr7y.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4qvp0yP99Is/WZDfcgP0GoI/AAAAAAABIIQ/IIKM9tCdQeEdS05-nMAMhDRjMbh1pwj2wCK4BGAYYCw/s320/rzyoqz7dmr7y.jpg" width="212" /></a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">&nbsp;Manigault was very brave to enter the lion's den and stand up to the bullies. But there is little doubt that the convention organizers who invited her fully expected such an outcome and hoped to bring national attention to their gathering. It was a cheap publicity stunt and Martin is right: the organizers should be ashamed of themselves for dissing the mothers of slain children by turning the event into an anti-Trump circus.<br /><br />One other thing became clear at this event: most blacks don't want engagement, don't want dialogue or discussion or debate with the president. If they do, they want it on their terms. They are marginalizing themselves with this attitude and making themselves politically irrelevant.</blockquote>Being black and a woman, Omarosa is a natural target for the &nbsp;"Shut up, they explained" leftists.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-81926917075818996672017-08-13T19:10:00.000-04:002017-08-13T19:10:18.359-04:00A Walk in the Woods<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E-JXwAemeRs/WZDYQVK2k-I/AAAAAAABIHg/37bA1sfL3DUnZwPo-ubYDSP8wHdu5eznwCLcBGAs/s1600/081317-a.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-E-JXwAemeRs/WZDYQVK2k-I/AAAAAAABIHg/37bA1sfL3DUnZwPo-ubYDSP8wHdu5eznwCLcBGAs/s320/081317-a.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>This afternoon Georgia, Skye and I visited the <a href="https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/maryland/american-chestnut-land-trust?ref=header">American Chestnut Land Trust</a> &nbsp;Family Day at their headquarters on Parkers Creek. After a short mingling in the crowds, meeting some friends, we set off down the <a href="https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/maryland/parkers-creek-loop">Parker's Creek Loop trail</a>.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L-JIWXcZ9nA/WZDYQV_Nj8I/AAAAAAABIHc/8ViPJkziEQoak4CFlpR8ANAWXLnRBWrqQCLcBGAs/s1600/081317-b.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L-JIWXcZ9nA/WZDYQV_Nj8I/AAAAAAABIHc/8ViPJkziEQoak4CFlpR8ANAWXLnRBWrqQCLcBGAs/s320/081317-b.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>The trail is well marked, and maintained, although it was somewhat muddy in spots, due to the 2 inches of rain we have had in the last two day. The trail is almost entirely under the canopy of the forest, which helps keep it cool<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mddg4_ofzqk/WZDYQYD3YjI/AAAAAAABIHY/Ix4q2CBdqJg23p8CYfM435K6QD2n-h6MwCLcBGAs/s1600/081317-c.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Mddg4_ofzqk/WZDYQYD3YjI/AAAAAAABIHY/Ix4q2CBdqJg23p8CYfM435K6QD2n-h6MwCLcBGAs/s320/081317-c.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>It starts at an elevation of about 350 ft (high for Calvert County) and winds down gullies to sea level, where Parkers Creek winds in from the western shore as a tidal creek.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZCTAPlLE80w/WZDYQuO1jLI/AAAAAAABIHk/kNGHcmjy7UIJDOSSIEqEHj-aDrXRVdHsgCLcBGAs/s1600/081317-d.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZCTAPlLE80w/WZDYQuO1jLI/AAAAAAABIHk/kNGHcmjy7UIJDOSSIEqEHj-aDrXRVdHsgCLcBGAs/s320/081317-d.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Once you get to the bottom, there is a good view of the creek, looking toward the Bay. &nbsp;There is also a somewhat of a shortcut back up to the top. The full loop is approximately 3.5 miles, but somewhat less using the <a href="https://www.alltrails.com/explore?b_tl_lat=38.55283058824757&amp;b_tl_lng=-76.5544080734253&amp;b_br_lat=38.526815914306546&amp;b_br_lng=-76.51376724243164">Doubleoak Road</a> trail, only about 3 miles. It took about an hour to complete.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-48642095927900312222017-08-13T08:16:00.002-04:002017-08-13T19:41:11.619-04:00Reasons #5641-5644 That Trump Was Elected<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/09/chicago-burglar-ice-custody-interesting-history/">Chicago Burglar In ICE Custody Has “Interesting” History</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Perhaps Mayor Emanuel will want to take a quick second look at some of his policies. He wants Chicago to turn a blind eye to illegal aliens in their midst, effectively aiding and abetting them in their efforts to avoid deportation. But does he feel that way about Jose Cruz Morales-Cortes? Mr. Morales-Cortes somehow failed to take advantage of Chicago’s “welcoming city” policies and has wound up in ICE custody. But not before allegedly committing a string of armed robberies. What makes this individual even more interesting is that <a href="http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2017/08/08/jose-cruz-morales-cortes-ice-custody-robberies/">we’ve already booted him out of the country twice</a>.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">A man who has been deported from the United States twice was indicted last week for six robberies in Chicago and several suburbs since December.<br />Jose Cruz Morales-Cortes, 45, was indicted on six counts of robbery on Aug. 1, according to a statement from the FBI.<br />Morales-Cortes, of Gary, Indiana, was deported for being in the country illegally on March 26, 2004 and again on Aug. 29, 2016, the FBI said. He was caught in the country again on Jan 20, 2017, and was in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when he was indicted for the robberies.</blockquote></blockquote>Put a GPS ankle bracelet on him, and threaten to shoot him if he leaves Chicago again.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/12/tips-lead-to-arrest-ms-13-gang-member-on-fbi-ten-most-wanted-list.html">Tips lead to arrest of MS-13 gang member on FBI Ten Most Wanted list</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">An MS-13 gang member on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list has been captured in Virginia after a four-year manhunt, authorities announced Saturday.<br /><br />Walter Yovany Gomez, an illegal immigrant from Honduras, was arrested without incident Friday in Woodbridge, 20 miles south of Washington, as a result of a well-coordinated investigation and tips from the public, the FBI said.<br />. . .<br />He faces extradition to New Jersey where he was indicted on a charge of committing a violent crime in aid of racketeering. The FBI added his name to its Ten Most Wanted list in April.<br /><br />Gomez, who goes by the nickname “Cholo,” is accused of killing a fellow MS-13 gang member Julio Matute in Plainfield in 2011.<br /><br />Prosecutors say that after a night of partying Gomez and an accomplice beat Matute with a baseball bat, stabbed him 17 times with a knife and then slit his throat with a screwdriver.</blockquote>Another illegal alien doing a job citizens aren't permitted to.<br /><br /><a href="http://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2017/08/deportation-orders-trump-fewer-prevail-immigration-court/">Deportation Orders Up Under Trump, Fewer Prevail In Immigration Court&nbsp;</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Federal immigration courts ordered 57,069 people to leave the United States in the first six months of the Trump administration, up nearly 31 percent over the same period last year, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.<br /><br />Additionally, 16,058 people prevailed in their immigration cases, or had them closed, allowing them to stay in the United States, according to the data, which tallied orders issued from Feb. 1 to July 31. That total marked a 20.7 percent drop from the 20,255 immigrants who prevailed at the same time last year.</blockquote>So you do better in court when you actually try harder? Whodda thunk?<br /><br /><a href="http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2017/08/trump-just-ended-argument-for-illegal.html#more">Trump just ended the argument for illegal aliens</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">President Trump's announcement that he will seek stricter restrictions on legal immigration changed the game. Globalists now must defend having legal immigrants here in near-record number.<br /><br />He is making the Sweet Washington Ay-stablishment 'Mportant People (S.W.A.M.P.) defend ground they thought they already won.<br /><br />He also changed what the immigration debate is.<br /><br />One of the first fired shots came from Frank "Focus Group Said Trump Lost the Debate" Luntz, who tweeted, "41% of legally-arrived immigrants have a college degree, compared to 33% of all Americans."<br /><br />Thus, Trump divided the illegal aliens from the "legally-arrived immigrants."<br /><br />Guess which group doesn't have as many college degrees as "all Americans."<br /><br />And actually, native born American adults are more likely to have a college degree than foreign born, <a href="https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf">according to the Census Bureau</a>. Pew went by "recent arrivals." Hmm.<br /><br />The argument from Luntz shows that President Trump has reversed the polarity of the debate. The argument for illegal aliens was look at those poor pathetic creature who cross the desert to work for food for their family.<br /><br />They do jobs Americans refuse to do.<br /><br />Now the globalists must argue that legal immigrants earned their way in by getting that almighty college degree you shiftless lazy native-born Americans refuse to get. . .&nbsp;</blockquote>&nbsp; Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thepiratescove.us/2017/08/13/sorta-blogless-sunday-pinup-596/">"Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup"</a>&nbsp;and linkfest.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-21048680239121187752017-08-13T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-13T06:00:35.669-04:00Taylor Swift: Case Dismissed<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container tr_bq" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9KB7bsDkpHA/WY9afK_Gp0I/AAAAAAABIGM/OBhdidtdYV0fPSqytFOXF-LXJe90FpVdwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/zLhhfHL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9KB7bsDkpHA/WY9afK_Gp0I/AAAAAAABIGM/OBhdidtdYV0fPSqytFOXF-LXJe90FpVdwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/zLhhfHL.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Such a small target!</td></tr></tbody></table>First, what happened, or allegedly happened: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/la-et-dyh-entertainment-week-review-20170812-story.html">Taylor Swift goes to court,&nbsp;</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">A pop star told a jury about her tush, a red-hot musical hit town, a country-pop icon passed away, a rocker eyed the Great White Way and a surprising celebrity split made people super sad. Here’s all that news and more from this week in entertainment.<br /><br />“It was a definite grab. A very long grab,” Taylor Swift <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-august-taylor-swift-andrea-swift-groping-trial-day-4-1502376507-htmlstory.html">testified this week</a> in a $3-million civil case brought by a former DJ who says she got him fired by falsely accusing him of grabbing her butt during a meet-and-greet photo op. David Mueller admitted that he might have grabbed her ribs and speculated that <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-august-taylor-swift-groping-trial-1502290788-htmlstory.html">his boss might have been the real offender</a>. Of course, there had been a voir dire effort — can we call it a “background cheek”? — to <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-august-taylor-swift-groping-1502204888-htmlstory.html">keep Swifties and fired folks from getting on the jury</a>.</blockquote><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDj0EHTiCEA/WY9b-jw5tOI/AAAAAAABIGY/ct0jAxZoB-sIBdhK75lR-ujoaeg-KtGmACK4BGAYYCw/s1600/B42M-fUCUAIGfSN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kDj0EHTiCEA/WY9b-jw5tOI/AAAAAAABIGY/ct0jAxZoB-sIBdhK75lR-ujoaeg-KtGmACK4BGAYYCw/s320/B42M-fUCUAIGfSN.jpg" width="320" /></a>Then <a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/08/11/with-her-tough-testimony-did-we-just-meet-the-real-taylor-swift/">Taylor Swift testified:</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">In her deposition in a countersuit against former radio host David Mueller, Swift was strong, clear and indefatigable. Remember, it was Muller who initially sued her for the loss of his job — a termination tied to his alleged groping of the pop star during a meet-and-greet at Pepsi Center in Denver on June 2, 2013. Swift did not publicize her encounter with Mueller before his legal action and is countersuing Muller — something she is under no responsibility to do — for the tidy sum of $1. It seems that, for her, this is a matter of principle.</blockquote><br />It would be one sweet dollar though.<br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5uKurByKXWw/WY9cMy8pgRI/AAAAAAABIGg/CcouY10coAIifaENqOfx8T_ilGFNxDo9QCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/taylor-swift-gq-115-04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5uKurByKXWw/WY9cMy8pgRI/AAAAAAABIGg/CcouY10coAIifaENqOfx8T_ilGFNxDo9QCK4BGAYYCw/s320/taylor-swift-gq-115-04.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">When pressed about the incident Swift said, “It happened to me. He had a handful of my ass. It happened to me. I know it was him.” When a lawyer suggested it might be a case of misidentification, she said, “I didn’t need a picture. I could have picked him out of a line of a thousand . . . this is not alleged. I don’t need you to grill me about the tiny details of this photograph.”<br /><br />“You can ask me a million questions about it and I’m never going to say something different,” she said. “I never have said anything different.”</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wVBVw99sEmY/WY9cjCq8ySI/AAAAAAABIGo/9DNteZPpgegJAIffdh_gP1rytN41UEPxwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/18280369286_e71fc663db_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wVBVw99sEmY/WY9cjCq8ySI/AAAAAAABIGo/9DNteZPpgegJAIffdh_gP1rytN41UEPxwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/18280369286_e71fc663db_b.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">When Mueller’s attorney asked the signer why the front of Swift’s skirt didn’t show evidence of groping in a photo taken during the alleged assault, she retorted, “Because my ass is located on the back of my body.” When asked how she responded to news of Mueller’s termination she said, “I didn’t have a reaction to a strange person I didn’t know losing his job . . . that was a product of his decisions, not mine . . . I’m not going to let you or your client make me feel like this is my fault.”<br /><br />When asked if she may have misinterpreted accidental contact, Swift replied, “There has been a lot of talk about jostling and sliding and gliding into the frame . . . This was not jostling. There was no diving into the frame…. He did not touch my arm. He did not touch my rib. He did not touch my hand. He grabbed my bare ass.”<br /><br />Swift also addressed her reaction at the time in a way many, many women can relate to. &nbsp;“After this happened,” she said, “a light switched off in my personality.” She added “I just said in a monotone voice, ‘Thank you for coming.'”</blockquote><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KHiqPVxiV-k/WY9eLNnEN3I/AAAAAAABIG0/TqWpTsWNGosLDP5yAnFdPNRVVTq45OoAQCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/taylor-swift-vogue-cover-may-2016-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KHiqPVxiV-k/WY9eLNnEN3I/AAAAAAABIG0/TqWpTsWNGosLDP5yAnFdPNRVVTq45OoAQCK4BGAYYCw/s320/taylor-swift-vogue-cover-may-2016-02.jpg" width="264" /></a>And then the <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/11/breaking-judge-tosses-lawsuit-swift/">judge ruled in her favor:</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">&nbsp;After the plaintiff’s attorney Gregory McFarland rested in the lawsuit against Taylor Swift, her attorneys filed a motion to dismiss her from DJ David Mueller’s lawsuit. A few minutes ago, the judge ruled that Mueller didn’t prove his case well enough for a reasonable jury to find against Swift, and dropped her as a respondent. . .<br /><br />On the other hand, the case against the other two respondents may go to the jury on Monday. . .<br /><br />Reporting is still coming in from the courtroom, but this appears more technical than dispositive. Mueller alleged that all three acted to get him fired over false pretenses, but never established that Swift herself took any such action. In order to gain damages from Swift, Mueller had to present a preponderance of evidence that she acted to damage him financially. The judge has ruled that the plaintiffs made at least that much of a case with Swift’s mother and Frank Bell, her liaison to KYGO, but that means that the deep pockets that Mueller targeted has just left the building, so to speak.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fAmdPtntr9Y/WY9eY35MlfI/AAAAAAABIG8/wlLhZroaxRE5YgMdVj2vHHhHQAtxSZLCgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/Taylor%252BSwift%252BPants%252BShorts%252BHigh%252BWaisted%252BShorts%252BVJZOflujscYl%2B%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fAmdPtntr9Y/WY9eY35MlfI/AAAAAAABIG8/wlLhZroaxRE5YgMdVj2vHHhHQAtxSZLCgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/Taylor%252BSwift%252BPants%252BShorts%252BHigh%252BWaisted%252BShorts%252BVJZOflujscYl%2B%25281%2529.jpg" width="221" /></a></div>So Taylor's mother and Frank Bell will have to go to trial, unless they settle, which seems unlikely.<br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">That doesn’t mean that Swift’s out of the trial, however. The judge ruled that her countersuit against Mueller remains, and that is real trouble for the DJ. Swift’s attorneys rested without presenting a case because, well, McFarland basically proved her case in his direct examination of Swift and her team. That would essentially wipe out the other predicate for Mueller’s suit, which was that the allegations were false and made maliciously to harm Mueller, if the jury agrees with the witnesses who took the stand over the last three days. The jury doesn’t have much else to go on for Mueller other than his own word.<br /><br />Basically, Mueller and McFarland look plain out of luck.<br />. . .<br />Worth noting: Swift is only asking for a $1 symbolic award. If the jury finds in her favor, however, they can award her any amount they like (within reason). In that case, Mueller might get stuck with Swift’s legal fees, and … those might be considerable.</blockquote>Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-6034237483143560022017-08-12T18:08:00.001-04:002017-08-12T18:55:06.846-04:00Sika Deer in the HeadlightsIs someone trying to make a problem where there wasn't one before?<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tNqBEk6uujY/WY97tW_OdDI/AAAAAAABIHI/1GENw7OeKZgbir38bvXohpLcJw9sN19tQCLcBGAs/s1600/aug_10_17big01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tNqBEk6uujY/WY97tW_OdDI/AAAAAAABIHI/1GENw7OeKZgbir38bvXohpLcJw9sN19tQCLcBGAs/s320/aug_10_17big01.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A sika deer feeds on underwater grasses near the <br />Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Karen Noonan Center <br />in Dorchester County, Maryland, on August 2, 2017.</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="http://www.chesapeakebay.net/news/blog/photo_of_the_week_sika_deer_quietly_encroach_on_chesapeakes_eastern_shore">Sika deer quietly encroach on Chesapeake’s Eastern Shore</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Native to Japan, Taiwan and eastern Asia, <a href="http://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/sika_deer">sika deer</a> were first introduced to the United States when four or five of the animals were let loose on James Island in Dorchester County, Maryland, in 1916. Outside of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, sika deer have been introduced in various locations across the United States, including Texas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Assateague Island in Virginia.<br /><br />The introduction of sika deer was mostly overlooked for several decades, until their population began to rapidly increase around the 1950s. Although a popular game animal, sika deer have no natural predators in the Chesapeake Bay region, meaning their growth had gone relatively unchecked. Today, an estimated 12,000 sika deer live on the Delmarva Peninsula.<br /><br />Previous studies have suggested that, although they are an exotic species, sika dear are not <a href="http://www.chesapeakebay.net/issues/invasive_species">invasive</a>, because they do not directly compete with native wildlife for food and habitat. However, <a href="http://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17498/2015_KalbDavid_PhD.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y">recent research</a>&nbsp;has suggested the increasing number and expanding range of sika deer may threaten the future health of the fragile salt marsh habitats they tend to graze in. Their fondness for crops like corn and soybeans—like their <a href="http://www.chesapeakebay.net/discover/field-guide/entry/white_tailed_deer">white-tailed cousins</a>—has also made them a pest in some areas.</blockquote>It's hard to imagine that in a landscape practically overrun with White-tailed Deer, that their little Sika cousins are much of a threat.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-56453874199449890622017-08-12T09:21:00.000-04:002017-08-12T09:21:13.782-04:00Reason #5641 That Trump Was Elected<div class="tr_bq"><a href="http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2017/08/11/devos_scales_back_federal_role_lets_states_lead_110187.html">DeVos Scales Back Federal Role, Lets States Lead</a></div><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">State lawmakers around the country are pushing bold and ambitious education reform plans and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos appears content to let them lead the way.<br /><br />“It’s encouraging to see so many states pass pro-student and pro-parent legislation that expands the educational opportunities available to children and their families,” DeVos told RealClearEducation in a statement. “I’ve always said that parents and educators at the grassroots level know best what their students need.”<br /><br />While the secretary is a vocal proponent of school choice, she prefers that states and local officials take the initiative. Even with Republican control of the White House and Capitol Hill, DeVos has pledged not to push a federal school choice program and has indicated that any federal action would come in the form of support for choice programs that states can opt to participate in.<br /><br />The secretary's philosophy runs counter to much of the modern history of American public education. Starting with President Lyndon Johnson's Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, nearly every administration has exerted some sort of federal influence over K-12 education, from President Jimmy Carter's creation of the Department of Education to President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind to President Obama’s Race to the Top.</blockquote>Actually letting states set the curriculum? One of them might decide to teach that people with penises are male, and we can't have that, now can we?Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-13244068985162615782017-08-12T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-13T19:40:08.176-04:00Rule 5 Saturday - There Was a Young Lady of Perth - Olivia DeJong<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBv7wFEsrVA/WY4hfRCbjoI/AAAAAAABIEs/xnyh1d441ywpZAmJd0U_yEvsNG2BJgDFwCLcBGAs/s1600/001_fc11983561231d0ea940f46385c5edbd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="736" data-original-width="736" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vBv7wFEsrVA/WY4hfRCbjoI/AAAAAAABIEs/xnyh1d441ywpZAmJd0U_yEvsNG2BJgDFwCLcBGAs/s320/001_fc11983561231d0ea940f46385c5edbd.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>This weeks Rule 5 subject was inspired by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_(TV_series)">"Will"</a>, the TNT fictional series about the life of the young William Shakespeare, in which <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4609822/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm">Olivia deJong</a> portrays his love interest, Alice Burbage:<br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #222222;">Young William Shakespeare is a struggling playwright who tires of making gloves in order to support his wife and three children. He travels to London and sells one of his plays to a theatre owned by James Burbage. In doing so, he befriends the rest of the company, pushes out the previous playwright and falls in love with Burbage's daughter, Alice. While seeking fame and fortune in London,&nbsp;</blockquote><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c2tVALz1oRk/WY4hfUFcLeI/AAAAAAABIEo/hjHhTZ-9Ph82xp6Q2YqDYWUMDdfR0ctDQCLcBGAs/s1600/002_will-laurie-davidson-olivia-dejonge-02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1000" height="228" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c2tVALz1oRk/WY4hfUFcLeI/AAAAAAABIEo/hjHhTZ-9Ph82xp6Q2YqDYWUMDdfR0ctDQCLcBGAs/s320/002_will-laurie-davidson-olivia-dejonge-02.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4609822/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm">Olivia DeJonge</a> was born to Robyn and Rob DeJonge on April 30, 1998, in Melbourne, and is the oldest out of two children. In October 2003 she and her family moved to Perth Western Australia where she commenced school at Presbyterian Ladies College in Peppermint Grove, a riverside suburb of Perth. Olivia's first acting opportunity came when she was 8 years old, in the form of a radio voiceover for a prominent hardware chain. Since then she has become a sought after young voiceover specialist who has completed well over 40 radio advertisements. In 2010 Olivia was offered the lead role in Maziar Lahooti's short film the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787071?ref_=nmbio_mbio">Good Pretender</a> (2011), and Olivia won the 24th Western Australian Screen Awards Best Actress Award for her performance.</blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KXNfrizXJq8/WY4hfbuNGmI/AAAAAAABIEk/SGjdblqOAR0bo57IasAJKXbmXq6jqkLsgCLcBGAs/s1600/003_d3e95ad11e76565ace04ff5edb097d44.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="366" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KXNfrizXJq8/WY4hfbuNGmI/AAAAAAABIEk/SGjdblqOAR0bo57IasAJKXbmXq6jqkLsgCLcBGAs/s320/003_d3e95ad11e76565ace04ff5edb097d44.jpg" width="239" /></a></div>This is one to watch for.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/maggabraco/?hl=en">Magga Braco</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zuleykarivera/?hl=en">Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza</a> leads <a href="http://goodstuffsworld.blogspot.com/2017/08/goodstuffs-blogging-magazine-305th-issue.html">GOODSTUFFs BLOGGING MAGAZINE (305th Issue)</a>, because they will become famous <a href="http://goodstuffsworld.blogspot.com/2014/10/hot-tamales.html">hot tamales</a>! Also, he had to include some off beat science and plenty of North Korea stuff. Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly <a href="http://www.thepiratescove.us/2017/08/13/sorta-blogless-sunday-pinup-596/">"Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup"</a> and linkfest.<br /><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a7iyBT_i8dI/WY4hfulFw0I/AAAAAAABIEw/acMm_2teuO4CSG2pxvlPwCg9uARTo-1ZgCLcBGAs/s1600/004_3e032268c881dececada7d47b241d88b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-a7iyBT_i8dI/WY4hfulFw0I/AAAAAAABIEw/acMm_2teuO4CSG2pxvlPwCg9uARTo-1ZgCLcBGAs/s640/004_3e032268c881dececada7d47b241d88b.jpg" width="576" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-upBHDD6hdRw/WY4hfkv6ikI/AAAAAAABIE0/9NhZ_h_MK-QLv_-pCZGYzxRywjOAjXdSwCLcBGAs/s1600/005_41D0B6E300000578-4645920-Flawless_Looking_every_inch_a_star_Olivia_sported_soft_shoulder_-a-57_1498642548759.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="700" height="480" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jYl0OFcPpYA/WY4hgzk1U5I/AAAAAAABIFs/NTJMmAE9alYuBEY2Dw5UH-A2jcT6ANungCLcBGAs/s640/015_scare-campaign-cinema-australia.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-32961736696524273392017-08-11T18:00:00.000-04:002017-08-11T18:00:12.680-04:00This Week in FeminismYou almost couldn't make this up:&nbsp;<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2017/08/10/sjws-attacking-lesbian-ariellescarcell-for-well-being-a-lesbian-really/">SJWs Attacking Lesbian @ArielleScarcell for . . . Well, Being a Lesbian, Really</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The totalitarian insanity of Third Wave “queer feminism” has now escalated to hitherto unprecedented levels. Popular lesbian YouTube personality Arielle Scarcelli (<a href="https://twitter.com/ArielleScarcell">@ArielleScarcell on Twitter</a>) committed the ThoughtCrime of saying that the way she knew she was gay was that she liked . . . uh, female anatomy.<br /><br />According to the social justice warrior (SJW) crowd, lesbians are not allowed to say this, because it’s transphobia. Whereas SJWs are generally OK with anybody who hates heterosexual men, all a guy’s gotta do is wear a dress and lipstick and suddenly he ceases to be a demonized enemy and becomes a sainted victim, like <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/09/11/leading-gamergate-critic-sarah-nyberg-claimed-to-be-a-pedophile-apologised-for-white-nationalism/">Nicholas “Sarah” Nyberg</a> or <a href="http://theothermccain.com/2017/07/25/zinnia-jones-satana-kennedy-transgender/">Zachary Antolak a/k/a “Zinnia Jones.”</a> Being transgender puts you at the apex of the SJW Hierarchy of Victimhood, and calling yourself a “queer, trans, nonbinary lesbian” means women are obligated to have sex with you because social justice. (<a href="http://theothermccain.com/2016/12/14/tranny-feminist-declares-you-are-discriminatory-not-to-date-himher/">The Riley Dennis Rule</a>.)<br /><br />Crazy? Yeah, but the lunatics running the “queer feminist” asylum make the rules and this means lesbians are not allowed to speak honestly about their lack of enthusiasm for men in dresses, and the usual SJW suspects who <a href="https://medium.com/the-patriarch-tree/chris-maldonado-hero-or-fool-a33357c18b12">ganged up against Laci Green for dating Chris Maldonado</a> are now ganging up against Arielle Scarcelli because of this video:</blockquote><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gjC0D7p2_P0" width="550"></iframe><br /><br />We live in Heinlein's crazy years.Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-20271901160233012592017-08-11T08:55:00.000-04:002017-08-11T08:55:12.306-04:00Reason #5640 That Trump Was ElectedIllegal aliens "sneaking" over the border to Canada:&nbsp;<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/09/new-york-state-surprising-flow-illegal-emigrants/">In New York State, A Surprising Flow Of Illegal Emigrants</a><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Up in the northeast corner of New York State is the unincorporated village of Champlain, appropriately named since it sits near the northern end of Lake Champlain. (Also not terribly far from where I go fishing every summer.) At the north end of the village there is a dead end street named Roxham Road. Beyond the dead end there is a path through the woods which brings you to the Canadian border after a relatively short walk. And that little street <a href="https://apnews.com/1b70b912be4642e2a930e92a9a2c5dae">is attracting visitors from across the nation in droves</a>. (Associated Press)<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Seven days a week, 24 hours a day, migrants who came to the U.S. from across the globe — Syria, Congo, Haiti, elsewhere — arrive here where Roxham Road dead-ends so they can walk into Canada, hoping its policies will give them the security they believe the political climate in the United States does not.<br />“In Trump’s country, they want to put us back to our country,” said Lena Gunja, a 10-year-old from Congo, who until this week had been living in Portland, Maine. She was traveling with her mother, father and younger sister. “So we don’t want that to happen to us, so we want a good life for us. My mother, she wants a good life for us.”<br />The passage has become so crowded this summer that Canadian police set up a reception center on their side of the border in the Quebec community of Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) south of Montreal, or almost 300 miles (480 kilometers) north of New York City.</blockquote>Leave it to the Canadians and their legendary niceness. They’ve put up a group of tents out there in the woods to “arrest” the illegal aliens, accept their plea for refugee status, feed them and ship them off to a holding facility in the nearest town. According to local reporting, back on our side of the border the Border Patrol has come by once in a while and arrested a couple of people, but for the most part they can’t be bothered. And why should they? The article quotes Border Patrol special operations supervisor Brad Brant as saying, “our mission isn’t to prevent people from leaving.”</blockquote>Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1840710415146608121.post-69513311194165161322017-08-11T06:00:00.000-04:002017-08-13T19:40:42.134-04:00Fish Pic Friday - Roosterfish<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WLA6PLeGcQQ/WYzU1Goh_dI/AAAAAAABICA/9Lk1H9VFaoY8MWDiIRKSc0dHe-rm3ux_QCLcBGAs/s1600/14956056_10154725069809096_3448768155104936122_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="660" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WLA6PLeGcQQ/WYzU1Goh_dI/AAAAAAABICA/9Lk1H9VFaoY8MWDiIRKSc0dHe-rm3ux_QCLcBGAs/s320/14956056_10154725069809096_3448768155104936122_n.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luiza Barros</td></tr></tbody></table><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosterfish">roosterfish</a>, Nematistius pectoralis, is a game fish found in the warmer waters of the East Pacific from Baja California to Peru.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is the only species in the genus Nematistius and the family Nematistiidae.&nbsp;It is distinguished by its "rooster comb", seven very long spines of the dorsal fin.</blockquote><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwXEZkMcoGU/WYzVHmeM1NI/AAAAAAABICI/U_PNbiV9wVwpiXy6d0yfId8pQuh-2xMUgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/2dc4b8c5d3a733ee148b8f30df014085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bwXEZkMcoGU/WYzVHmeM1NI/AAAAAAABICI/U_PNbiV9wVwpiXy6d0yfId8pQuh-2xMUgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/2dc4b8c5d3a733ee148b8f30df014085.jpg" width="216" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Two of my usual sources, Darcizzle and Brooke Thomas are Florida based, and I haven't been able to find them with a Rooster.<br /><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">The roosterfish has an unusual arrangement of its ears: the swim bladder penetrates the brain through the large foramina and makes contact with the inner ear. It uses its swim bladder to amplify sounds.</blockquote><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-itaDW8V2kGw/WYzVPkp1ZyI/AAAAAAABICQ/q2y1EWRJSbs7eOty6bbJkK31-QA1pfLxgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/13310616_880791888733775_8718366536117973196_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-itaDW8V2kGw/WYzVPkp1ZyI/AAAAAAABICQ/q2y1EWRJSbs7eOty6bbJkK31-QA1pfLxgCK4BGAYYCw/s320/13310616_880791888733775_8718366536117973196_n.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><blockquote style="background-color: #b6d7a8;">Roosterfish can reach over 1.6 m (5 ft 3 in) in length and over 50 kg (110 lb) in weight.The weight of the average fish hooked is about 20 lb (9.1 kg). The fish is popular as a game fish, but it is not considered a good eating fish. Catch and release is strongly recommended.</blockquote>I hooked one in Baja California once, on a side trip of a cruise, but alas, did not land it.<br /><br />Linked at EBL (Evi L. Blogger Lady) in <a href="https://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2017/08/kayla-fitz.html">"Kayla Fitz."</a>&nbsp;Never heard of her before, but she would look good with a Roosterfish. &nbsp;Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thepiratescove.us/2017/08/13/sorta-blogless-sunday-pinup-596/">"Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup"</a>&nbsp;and linkfest.<br /><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9RdTU0jRwg/WYzXDKBXSiI/AAAAAAABICg/2o2OVLQ9WUoaU63QOPyTg8LZAI3vFMT7gCLcBGAs/s1600/15697394_10154911904264096_4097726056584335610_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="540" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I9RdTU0jRwg/WYzXDKBXSiI/AAAAAAABICg/2o2OVLQ9WUoaU63QOPyTg8LZAI3vFMT7gCLcBGAs/s1600/15697394_10154911904264096_4097726056584335610_n.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Circuit Court of Appeals' 2-1 decision said EPA does not have the authority to enact a 2015 rule-making ending the use of hydrofluorocarbons commonly found in spray cans, automobile air conditioners and refrigerators. The three-judge panel said that because HFCs are not ozone-depleting substances, the EPA could not use a section of the Clean Air Act targeting those chemicals to ban HFCs.<br /><br />"Indeed, before 2015, EPA itself maintained that Section 612 did not grant authority to require replacement of nonozone-depleting substances such as HFCs," the court wrote.<br /><br />"EPA's novel reading of Section 612 is inconsistent with the statute as written. Section 612 does not require (or give EPA authority to require) manufacturers to replace non-ozonedepleting substances such as HFCs," said the opinion, written by Judge Brett Kavanaugh.<br /><br />The Obama administration issued the regulatory changes to correspond with the 1987 Montreal Protocol that sought to stop the depletion of the ozone layer by phasing out another chemical found in aerosols. The 2015 update was part of former President Barack Obama's climate change agenda due to the impact of HFCs on the climate.</blockquote>I'll give up my air conditioning after Washington bureaucrats and Al Gore give up theirs.<br /><br />Note that HFCs don't even <a href="http://www.climatedata.info/forcing/gases/">warrant a slice on a pie chart of global warming contributions</a>, being lumped in with "others" at 0.1%.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HmFTUqqIDlI/WYz0nPK2XdI/AAAAAAABIEU/BR2rdeRRSLY1j4MUg46U9IDB5K6mbXjagCLcBGAs/s1600/stacks_image_6734.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="792" height="311" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HmFTUqqIDlI/WYz0nPK2XdI/AAAAAAABIEU/BR2rdeRRSLY1j4MUg46U9IDB5K6mbXjagCLcBGAs/s400/stacks_image_6734.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />Fritzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403113111574246294noreply@blogger.com0